For the source code part git is already decentralized enough, it is not worth trying to censor a repo cloned on tens of thousands of machines locally.
For the social part: censorship resistance is im...
It’s not just about protecting from censorship. Honestly I’m not worried about that, it’s so trivial to just back up GitHub metadata in case they take it down.
It’s that GitHub is actually shit - their site consistently 503s lately, they’re pushing weird monetization policies, continually slow down the interface with more aggressive JavaScript garbage, etc.
From what I’ve seen radicle actually has a great UX, so not sure what you’re going off on there, but the goal is to have a GitHub replacement that works and is self-contained. If we have to host something to use it we’ll just self-host gitea and be done with it.
It’s that GitHub is actually shit - their site consistently 503s lately, they’re pushing weird monetization policies, continually slow down the interface with more aggressive JavaScript garbage, etc.
From what I’ve seen radicle actually has a great UX, so not sure what you’re going off on there, but the goal is to have a GitHub replacement that works and is self-contained. If we have to host something to use it we’ll just self-host gitea and be done with it.